Opposition Quiets In Face Of Tough Management Stand

Angry over their forced separation from Boeing and the
subsequent offer from their plants' new owners, SPEEA workers
nonetheless voted overwhelmingly to approve a new contract with
Onex-owned Mid-Western Aircraft.

Board Reveals What It Has Learned So Far

This June 27th, in the early afternoon, war hero,
philanthropist, and avid aviator John Walton was pronounced dead at
the scene of a light experimental plane crash near his main home in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Come Hungry

The Cherokee Pilots Association has scheduled its Third Annual
Fly-In for the weekend of August 5th at Grand Glaize Airport. Chuck
Suma, President and CEO of The New Piper Aircraft Company will be
speaking at the event.

A Hawker 400XP recently performed the inaugural landing at
London City Airport as part of Raytheon Aircraft Company's (RAC)
development program to certify the aircraft for flight into London
City's infamous Airport.

Round-Robin Charters Will Collect Illegal Immigrants In Six
Nations

Over the last year, incidents like the murder of Dutch filmmaker
Theo van Gogh by unassimilated immigrants who came for the welfare,
and stayed to commit crime, have caused the nations of the European
Union to reassess their open -- and flagrantly abused --
immigration policies.

What NBAA Is Doing, and How Members Can Help

As Congress returns from its July 4 recess, lawmakers will renew
consideration of a highway spending bill that mostly addresses
roadway improvements, but also contains two burdensome proposals
for the business aviation community.

Loving It Up While You're Going Down

Restored Spartan Wins 2005 Grand Champion Antique.

Centennial Aircraft Services, Inc. is doing premier work
restoring rare Spartan aircraft at the located on the W. K. Kellogg
Regional Airfield in Battle Creek. The company even received the
highest honor for antique aircraft restoration, 2005 Grand
Champion.

"Our goal is to grow into an event
that does bring in tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of
people."
Source: Peter Diamandis, chairman and founder
of the X Prize Foundation, discussing the first every X Prize Cup
is scheduled to make its October debut in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The event, scheduled to take place October 6th to 9th will showcase
spacecraft prototypes, rocket planes, and numerous demonstrations
and launches.